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...Take it out, put it in, and turn it on and the Godfather Himself JB the MAN the HARDEST Working Man in Show Biz-nass the FOUNDING FATHER of funk James Brown..." Fellas I'm ready to get up and do my thang...I wanna get into it, man, you know, like a sex machine man. Moving, doing it, you know...can I count it off?" and BREAK into Sly & The Family Stone coming and Thanking You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin and BREAK hangin with th'Parlifunkadelicacy thick groove hittin ya in your backside gang, doin...
...ever been seen before. As Wilhelm, Stefan Kurt is equally good with both Buster Keaton looniness and the melodramatic pathos into which he collapses after losing his mind (and, again, his trousers). Nobody has ever made sliminess more winning than Dominique Horwitz as Pegleg. True to his show-biz heart, he doesn't disappear inside his 10-ft.-tall black coffin until he has sung some dreadful treacle about the last rose in his garden. After that, there can't be anyone in the house who isn't thinking that there's gotta be a way to keep this whatever...
Like all of us, Bob Jones (Michael Keaton) has a death sentence hanging over him. But the clock is ticking faster for Bob: his kidney cancer has spread to his lungs and brain. Nothing can save him, not his youth, his cushy show-biz job, his loving wife (Nicole Kidman) or the child she carries inside her. Nor is he comforted by memories of a childhood disconnected from his working-class parents. So Bob decides to videotape a few remarks...
This movie can't be that good -- it's won too many prizes. The Piano has been saddled with a Cannes Palme d'Or and 11 Australian Film Institute awards. For New Zealand writer-director Jane Campion, the film marks a triumph of dazzling movie art and canny show-biz heart. It's that good...
...court, about to be sprung after serving just five years of a 30-year rap, making a grandiose speech thanking everyone who has helped him. It's a fine bit, which, as the judge sourly comments, sounds a little too much like an acceptance speech at some show-biz awards ceremony...